No comments Tomb of Rekhmire On the left-hand wall of the inner corridor, at (c), Rekhmire supervises the delivery of grain, wine and cloth from the royal storehouses. He inspects carpenters, leathcr-workers, metalworkers and potters, who all come under his control. In the lower row is a record of the construction of an entrance portal […]

No comments Tomb of Haremhab This is the tomb of the first pharaoh of non-royal lineage to construct his resting place in the Valley of the Kings. Haremhab was the general who seized control at the end of the 18th Dynasty and his tomb is one of the most remarkable, although the entrance is unimpressive. […]

No comments Anubis God of the Dead Part 2/3 With that, Bata went away to the Valley of the Cedars and Anubis God entered his house full of grief. He slew his wife and cast her to the dogs and mourned his brother. Anubis Egyptian God Picture After a long journey, Bata found a tall […]

No comments Luxor (Ancient Thebes) After the war of liberation from the Hyksos, Egyptian People entered a new phase of development, the New Kingdom. At first the culture differed only slightly from that of the Middle Kingdom, but following the military successes of Thutmose III Pharaoh, who extended Egyptian influence in Western Asia, the political, […]

No comments Tomb of Aye Aye was known as ‘Divine Father’. He was the husband of Queen Nefertiti’s nurse. Among his many titles was ‘Overseer of All the Horses of His Majesty’. He was Akhenaten’s close friend and adviser, a role he continued with the young pharaoh Tutankhamon. Tomb of Aye When Tel el Amarna […]

No comments The Tomb of Ramose This tomb belongs to the vizier in the reigns of Amenhotep III and IV (later Akhenaten). It comprises a main hall with thirty-two rather squat papyrus columns (1), an inner hall (2) containing eight clustered columns of smaller dimension (all destroyed), and the shrine (3). The Tomb of Ramose […]

No comments Tomb of Tutankhamon The story of the discovery of the tomb of this pharaoh who died when he was barely eighteen years old is too long, too fascinating and too mysterious to be told in its entirety here. Tomb of Tutankhamon It was discovered on 4th November 1922 by Howard Carter (acting on […]

No comments Plan to save the Temples of Abu Simbel There are two temples at Abu Simbel: the Great Temple of Ramses II and the small temple of Nefertari, his Great Royal Wife. Both were excavated out of the solid rock of a mountain. They could not, therefore, be dismantled, transported and re-erected elsew here, […]

No comments Asasif: Tomb of Kheru-ef This is the tomb of the steward to the Great Royal Wife Queen Tiy, wife of Amenhotep III. It was never completed, but it is interesting to observe that, while other noblemen of the 18th Dynasty, like Ramose for example, abandoned Thebes and went to the new capital of […]

No comments Teti king 2345 – 2333 BC Dynasty 6 Teti Pharaoh According to Manetho, the 6th Dynasty kings came from Memphis, a statement which seems to be borne out by the location of their funeral monuments at Saqqara, overlooking the capital of Memphis. Teti’s accession to the throne as the first king of the […]

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Ancient Egypt No comments Dance and Music in Ancient Egypt  – ancient egyptian musical instruments ancient egyptian musical instruments The papyrus goes on to describe the process of bird trapping : I walk away from the river in the second day and the fifteenth day of the month and go down to the lake. Staves […]

No comments Menkaure’s Pyramid Menkaure’s Pyramid from The Exterior: Menkaure Pyramid Then we talk to the third pyramid of Giza, which is attributed to Menkaure ( Mycerinus in Greek), who reigned Ancient Egypt from (2494-2472B.C). This is much smaller than the other two pyramids of Khufu and Khafre. This pyramid is only 7% of the […]

حضارة قدماء المصريين أو الحضارة الفرعونية هي الحضارة التي قامت في أفرقيا في شمالها الشرقي ، وكما قالوا ان مصر هبة النيل سنقول ان مصر قامت او الحضارة الفرعونية قامت على ضفاف نهر النيل . سنتلكم عن الحضارة الفرعونية من 3150 ق . م وهو ما يسمى  عصر ما قبل الاسرات . مع التوحيد السياسي […]